'Skyhook' and other CIA spyware

October 16, 2012

Central Intelligence Agency

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When Soviet Lt. Viktor I. Belenko defected in a MiG‑25 Foxbat fighter to Japan on Sept. 6, 1976, he carried two personal items: this military identity document and a knee-pad notebook with flight data. The Japanese Government returned the MiG to the Soviet Union disassembled, in 30 crates. Belenko accepted asylum in the United States, went through months of debriefings and became an American citizen by an act of Congress when President Jimmy Carter signed a private bill into law. He settled on a ranch in Wyoming, went hiking and fishing with fighter ace and test pilot Chuck Yeager, and cooperated with author John Barron to produce a biography, "MiG Pilot, The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko," published in 1980.

Central Intelligence Agency

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When Soviet Lt. Viktor I. Belenko defected in a MiG‑25 Foxbat fighter to Japan on Sept. 6, 1976, he carried two personal items: this military identity document and a knee-pad notebook with flight data. The Japanese Government returned the MiG to the Soviet Union disassembled, in 30 crates. Belenko accepted asylum in the United States, went through months of debriefings and became an American citizen by an act of Congress when President Jimmy Carter signed a private bill into law. He settled on a ranch in Wyoming, went hiking and fishing with fighter ace and test pilot Chuck Yeager, and cooperated with author John Barron to produce a biography, "MiG Pilot, The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko," published in 1980.